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Show While the City Slept Highway Patrol, City Cops Rush Blood for Critical Milford Patient By JAQUELINE WILLIAMS While most Milford citizens slept one night last week a cooperative effort by local medical and hospital hospit-al personnel, the local walking blood bank, the local Red Cross Chapter, the Intermountain Red Cross Blood Bank, the Highway Patrol, and tht local police swiftly and quietly made available 10 pints of blood for a critically ill bleeding patient, Leland Beard, at the Beaver Bea-ver County Hospital. At the time of admission three pints of Red Cross blood were available in the hospital's . blood bank When it became apparent that more blood might be needed a phone call at 1 a. m. to the Red Cross Blood Bank in Salt Lake started an additional four units of blood speeding by Highway Patrol Pa-trol toward Milford. Meanwhile three local donors from Milford's walking blood bank were crossmatched cross-matched with the bleeding patient. pa-tient. Blood was drawn from one of these donors the others stood by. At 5 a. m. the town marshal, having driven to- Scipio on Highway High-way 91 to intercept the Highway Patrol, delivered the four units of blood from the Salt Lake Red Cross Blood Bank. While most of Milford slept, this j smooth functioning human machine ma-chine moved swiftly to safeguard the life of one of our neighbors. It 1 it a great comfort to know that the i Red Cross, the law enforcement officers and the medical personnel of Milford are ready day and night to provide this life-saving service to each one of us if it is needed. |
